Thank you for your help, I have been very worried about this. I have a light green to brown thumb so to speak, but it is getting better with practice. I would never have tried to take care of potted roses but again these were special.

I will remember to stop fertilizing it. I have some soap stuff that I used for green fuzzy worms it got a month ago, so I will keep that on hand for when I bring them indoors as well! Thanks again!

Curious why you don't wish to bury it? The garage thing does work if it is an unheated but INSULATED garage AND you remember to WATER them at least once a month.

Normally I never recommend trying to keep roses in the house. It isn't the light or the temperature, it's the low humidity that kills them. If you must keep it inside take a cake pan and put an inch of pebbles in the bottom. Fill the pan only about half way up the pebbles (so about 1/2 an inch) and place the pot on the dry top of the pebbles. Make sure the water is NOT touching the bottom of the pot. That pan will raise the humidity around the rose and it should do OK for you.

Or you could keep your humidifier closer to the rose.

Oh, I was not aware it was the humidity! I can certainly create a rock pan or move a humidifier closer. Thank you!

I just wanted to flag that some of us don't have an unheated garage. For example, I live in an apartment and the common garage is heated (65°F). So the choice is between leaving the container out in the balcony or keep it indoors.

I don't have a garage either, getgoing. I winter 60 some pots outside against the back (south facing) wall of my house wrapped in burlap and packed with leaves. I've been doing that for going on 15 years and rarely lose a rose in the winter pot ghetto. I lose far more of the ones in the ground. I've found that even though the cold can do damage it's far more likely they'll die of dehydration. I shovel snow onto my roses all winter and if there isn't any snow I water them.

For some reason the rest of my post disappeared. I will write again soon. I must admire your tenacity.

Sei could you please expand a little more on how you add the snow? You wrapped burlap around the roses with leaves stuffed inside. Do you then put the snow on top of the burlap pile/water through the burlap, or so you unwrap the burlap to water and wrap afterwards? How often do you water if it doesn’t snow much?

Though not an authorized spokesmodel for seil, I will answer on her behalf concerning the question about unwrapping/rewrapping of the burlap to add H2O, be it liquid or frozen.

”No”.

seil, please feel free to correct me.

Good question about the frequency of watering in instances of no precipitation.